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and john brennan, the president's top counterterrorism advisor, has emerged as a leading candidate to fill the role unexpectedly vacated by david petraeus as director of the c.i.a. the news about susan rice's standing had all the feel of a trial balloon today, scott, as white house officials try to determine just how entrenched this republican opposition is and how difficult the confirmation process would be. >> pelley: nancy, thank you. an army prosecutor says that staff sergeant robert pwaels should be tried and executed for the massacre of 16 civilians in afghanistan. a preliminary hearing wrapped up today at joint base lewis-mcchord in washington state and john blackstone is there. >> reporter: sergeant bales, the prosecutor said, committed crimes that were heinous, brutal and methodical, murders in two afghan villages, including nine children. over three days, survivors testified on a video link from afghanistan. bales' civilian defense attorney, emma scanlon, said the army missed opportunities to examine bales for signs of traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorde
and john brennan, the president's top counterterrorism advisor, has emerged as a leading candidate to fill the role unexpectedly vacated by david petraeus as director of the c.i.a. the news about susan rice's standing had all the feel of a trial balloon today, scott, as white house officials try to determine just how entrenched this republican opposition is and how difficult the confirmation process would be. >> pelley: nancy, thank you. an army prosecutor says that staff sergeant robert...
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john brennan, the chief counterterrorism adviser, is the leading contender to fill the spot left open by the resignation of cia director david petraeus. >>> space enthusiasts looking to the sky this morning or maybe their computer screens to catch a glimpse of a total solar eclipse. it starts later on this morning but will only be visible for a few minutes from australia. most of the path stretches over an empty span of that pacific ocean. you can still watch it via the internet, which is always cool. the camera, a robotic telescope, will stream the eclipse live starting at 11:30 this morning. that's a look at the website right there on your screen so check it out. >>> a different kind of eclipse happening in los angeles as "twilight" fans crowded the walkways outside the nokia theater hoping to get a glimpse of the stars. last night was the world premiere of "breaking dawn part 2." the final film in the "twilight" series. some 2,000 twihards walked and cheered as their favorite stars walked the red carpet. it opens nationwide on friday. some of those fans were camped out for days ove
john brennan, the chief counterterrorism adviser, is the leading contender to fill the spot left open by the resignation of cia director david petraeus. >>> space enthusiasts looking to the sky this morning or maybe their computer screens to catch a glimpse of a total solar eclipse. it starts later on this morning but will only be visible for a few minutes from australia. most of the path stretches over an empty span of that pacific ocean. you can still watch it via the internet, which...
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>> brian: was john brennan's phone off the hook? were are all the people who took bows for the bin laden raid? >> steve: what he revealed during his presentation yesterday, that she was asked by the white house to make a presentation. so she did. meanwhile, while the president calls out those senators, those two male senators, there was actually a third, female, kelly ayotte -- the senator, john mccain, who was on the program yesterday, he responded to the president's challenge with this. >> i'm going to hold her accountable. she volunteered for this assignment. she's either very incompetent, when she came to explaining benghazi or misleading. but the person i blame the most is the president. >> my response to the president of the united states is we're not picking on anybody. and the buck does stop at your desk, mr. president. >> gretchen: we're kind of missing the point of why susan rice was the one who went out on the sunday talk shows. it wasn't -- if she had nothing to do with benghazi, then the next question would be, okay. so
>> brian: was john brennan's phone off the hook? were are all the people who took bows for the bin laden raid? >> steve: what he revealed during his presentation yesterday, that she was asked by the white house to make a presentation. so she did. meanwhile, while the president calls out those senators, those two male senators, there was actually a third, female, kelly ayotte -- the senator, john mccain, who was on the program yesterday, he responded to the president's challenge with...
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and also, john brennan, homeland security advisor to president obama. talk to us about who may be stepping in to fill the shoes of general petraeus. guest: well, you know, morell is considered sorted of the most likely candidate because, you know, having been the deputy director, he could relatively easily just step in to the directorship, very, very intimately familiar with the agency. the other people are all possibilities, but you need to remember that intelligence jobs have been a little bit hard for the obama white house to fill recently. you had director of national intelligence, jim clapper, nominated some time ago to run the overall intelligence operation and it was reportedly very difficult for the white house to find somebody to take that job. it was reportedly offered to several other people before clapper finally took it. so it would be interesting to see who would be on the list to do this. it's also a job where the white house, you know, has not given the c.i.a. director a huge amount of latitude. there's pretty strong control from the whi
and also, john brennan, homeland security advisor to president obama. talk to us about who may be stepping in to fill the shoes of general petraeus. guest: well, you know, morell is considered sorted of the most likely candidate because, you know, having been the deputy director, he could relatively easily just step in to the directorship, very, very intimately familiar with the agency. the other people are all possibilities, but you need to remember that intelligence jobs have been a little...
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and, you know, there were people involved like john brennan who i think kind of went overboard talking about who had been engaged in hunting bin laden for more than 15 years. to you can begin to understand kind of the visceral sense of excitement and accomplishment that folks felt. and there was a tremendous amount of excitement in the country and a clamor for information. and so as often happens in these cases -- in fact, i'll go so far as to say as always happens in these circumstances -- individuals on the white house staff, pentagon staff knew more than they should have about what happened. in that sense i don't mean that they gave away -- i don't think anyone gave away important national secrets, but they did deliver misinformation. so, for instance, brennan said, characterized the seal raid as a fire fight, as this intense fire fight, and it wasn't. i mean, the seals when they hit the house were fired upon once, a burst of inaccurate fire. they returned fire. they don't do inaccurate fire. [laughter] so the guy who shot at them died. after that there was no more shooting except t
and, you know, there were people involved like john brennan who i think kind of went overboard talking about who had been engaged in hunting bin laden for more than 15 years. to you can begin to understand kind of the visceral sense of excitement and accomplishment that folks felt. and there was a tremendous amount of excitement in the country and a clamor for information. and so as often happens in these cases -- in fact, i'll go so far as to say as always happens in these circumstances --...
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brennan is still a possibility, if he wants it, to take over at cia. a lot going on here. savannah. >> complicated is the word of the day. amitch nell washington. thank you. let's turn to retired colonel jack jacobs who is an nbc military analyst. first petraeus, and now general allen involved. on the stunner scale, where do you put this? >> seven. very startling, especially for those people who worked with these officers and known for them for years and years. really quite astonishing. do you know general allen? what is his reputation? >> i don't know him very well. i've met him on several occasions. he's a 1976 honors graduate of the u.s. naval academy. he's got a -- a masters degree from georgetown, from the national war college. he's quite an intellectual actually. a great infantry marine and has had an absolutely stellar career. all this personal stuff coming out at a very, very difficult time complicates matters, both for our effort in southwest asia and for the upcoming budget battle. >> further complicating it is that he's about to leave as the
brennan is still a possibility, if he wants it, to take over at cia. a lot going on here. savannah. >> complicated is the word of the day. amitch nell washington. thank you. let's turn to retired colonel jack jacobs who is an nbc military analyst. first petraeus, and now general allen involved. on the stunner scale, where do you put this? >> seven. very startling, especially for those people who worked with these officers and known for them for years and years. really quite...
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with petraeus out he could tap john owe brennan to take over at the cia. secretary of state hillary clinton has insisted she will serve one term only, vacating her post come january. the white house is leaning towards u.s. ambassador to the united nations, susan rice to replace clinton at foggy bottom. rice's confirmation is far from assured giving the questions surrounding her handling of the attacks in benghazi. defense secretary leon panetta made it clear he is ready for retirement. senator john kerry, eyeing the secretary of state position may be asked to replace panetta. adding to the stakes of musical chairs, general allen's confirmation hearing to lead nato has been put on hold. during the campaign president obama called for nation building at home in his second term. he'll need to start by rebuilding his own team. john heilemann, you were a guest on the very first program of this show, there is a lot happening inside the president's inner leadership circle. how much of a problem do you think this is for him? >> first of all, let's not -- let's terr
with petraeus out he could tap john owe brennan to take over at the cia. secretary of state hillary clinton has insisted she will serve one term only, vacating her post come january. the white house is leaning towards u.s. ambassador to the united nations, susan rice to replace clinton at foggy bottom. rice's confirmation is far from assured giving the questions surrounding her handling of the attacks in benghazi. defense secretary leon panetta made it clear he is ready for retirement. senator...
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. >> that was a senior advisor to senator john mccain when he was running for president. we are joined by myrna pÉrez, senior counsel at the brennan center in the democracy program at new york university school of law. we're also joined by brentin mock, lead reporter for voting rights watch 2012, a collaboration between the nation magazine and colorlines.com brid. schmidt, i amteve wondering if he is on the switches party affiliation listening to him these days. >> it is certainly the case there is no dispute that our election system needs to be free and fair and full of integrity. the dispute is over what means people are quantitate in order to ensure that and how many people are going to be disenfranchised. the evidence documents that the kinds of restrictive laws being passed do not do anything or do very little, if anything at all, to make our elections more secure. what they do do is make it very difficult for eligible americans to participate and vote. we need to ask ourselves, how many barriers are we going to put in front of the ballot box between eligible americ
. >> that was a senior advisor to senator john mccain when he was running for president. we are joined by myrna pÉrez, senior counsel at the brennan center in the democracy program at new york university school of law. we're also joined by brentin mock, lead reporter for voting rights watch 2012, a collaboration between the nation magazine and colorlines.com brid. schmidt, i amteve wondering if he is on the switches party affiliation listening to him these days. >> it is certainly...